Summary Reported by the DailyKos website yesterday, a portion of this sweeping, potentially groundbreaking documentary, involving scientists and well-known activists (Don Cheadle, Harrison Ford and Matt Damon, to name a few), is now available to view on the DailyKos website, with a link to YouTube.

What I saw was not a trailer (though there is at least one), but segments from the production that switch back and forth with the narrators following climate change and its disastrous impacts from Texas to Indonesia and Syria, for starters. I got the distinct sense that these people, the celebrities or scientists, were not just paying lip-service, but filming this in deadly earnest fashion, with the growing sense that if the rest of the world won't challenge the deniers of climate change, then they are certainly up to the task.

As Harrison Ford said, after viewing slashed and burned rainforest in Indonesia, supposedly protected as a national park, "I can't WAIT to meet him" (meaning the official in charge of protecting this area, who has failed miserably, in all likelihood deliberately). I would not want to be in this guy's shoes when Ford confronts him!

There are others who, like a scientist with deep Christian beliefs, figures out ways to convince her fellow Christians that a drought that has basically killed an entire town by eliminating the beef industry there, is not "the work of God" and a "natural" cycle redeemed by prayer, but something that they must address personally.

In another segment, a journalist travels into the civil war of Syria, to find out, that most of the rebels say, "this is a revolution of hungry people". But that makes it no less deadly, as they travel outside Turkey, only to find that towns are now being attacked inside what they thought was a safe haven.

As the scientist leading the journey says, "It would be a mistake for anyone to think that this can only happen here; that this drought and famine will not affect US." - Words to ponder, but mostly upon which to act.

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